The need to retrain workers when there are changes in technology is seemingly circumvented by the teaching of generic skills in VET. Generic skills have moved on and off the Australian VET policy agenda since the early ...

This case study uses two storytelling methods for analysis an advanced hermeneutic framework and an extended form of decision systems analysis (DSA) incorporating cognitive mapping to explore the strategic thought in ...

Business firms are increasingly becoming dependent on each other to deliver services to their customers. Due to rapid changes in market conditions such as introduction of new technologies, changing customer preferences, ...

The volume and diversity of information shared and exchanged within and across social networking sites is increasing. As a result new and challenging requirements are needed for quality manipulation of the information. An ...

We develop a framework that allows a multivariate system of long memory processes to be conditional on specific regimes. We illustrate our model by investigating the effects of overall European Union (EU) sovereign ...

The tourism industry in its product/service and promotion has neglected certain groups of tourists, but so too have tourism scholars and researchers. This paper focuses on tourism transportation and obesity. A study of ...

This paper explores the potential of airlines to discriminate against obese customers through their direct or indirect `customer of size policies, determined though a web survey of the policies of airlines in the One World ...

Butler, R; McDonnell, IG(Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education, 2009-01)

The role of key individuals in tourism has not been given due credit in the tourism literature. This paper uses the example of H.G. Smith and his role in the development of Manly, Australia's first tourist resort to ...

Trust and reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In the literature however there has been no effort in proposing ontology for trust. The trusted agent in service oriented environment may trust a software ...